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APPLICATIONS INVITED for 2010 MEF SERVICE PROVIDER AWARDS

New categories & criteria reflect the evolving landscape of  Carrier Ethernet Services

Open to all Service Providers, First deadline for entries September 3, 2010.   Click for Details

Applications are now invited from forward-looking service providers offering Carrier Ethernet services to compete for the MEF Carrier Ethernet Service Provider Awards - 2010.

The MEF's Global Interconnect program is already changing the face of worldwide telecoms, and the awards have been restructured to reflect the evolving service provider landscape.  Recognized as an annual celebration of excellence and leadership in the development, marketing and delivery of Carrier Ethernet Services, these awards and presented annually in North America, Asia-Pacific (APAC), Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) and for the first time this year, the dynamic Caribbean & Latin American (CALA) region. Full details and application forms are available now from the MEF website http://metroethernetforum.org/mef-service-provider-awards

This week...   Carrier Ethernet World Americas (CEW Americas), the first official MEF Congress in the LATAM region.   Monday May 10, 2010, the MEF held its MEF Workshop.  Hosted by Eric Doricko,  MEF CALA Co-Chair, Solutions Marketing Director,  Metro Ethernet  & CALA, Calix Networks, the workshop featured a tutorial and panel on Service Provider Interconnect moderated by Kevin Vachon, MEF Chief Operating Officer with a panel including Nan Chen, President of CENX, Emerson Moura of Cisco Systems, and Umesh Kukreja from Lucent Alcatel.   Click here for the full MEF Workshop agenda.

MEF Main Conference Presentations/Speakers

Tuesday May 11, 2010
09.30 MEF Keynote - Global Carrier Ethernet (CE) Review
Nan Chen, President, MEF & Co-Founder & President, CENX

May 4, 2010 - Market research firm Infonetics Research released the first edition of its 2010 biannual Carrier Ethernet Equipment market share and forecast report.

"Service provider investment in carrier Ethernet is growing faster than overall telecom capital expenditures, so it is one of the areas that defied the economic downturn," notes Michael Howard, Infonetics Research's principal analyst for carrier and data center networks. "Globally, service providers invested $21.6 billion in carrier Ethernet products in 2009, and will increase spending over at least the next five years, for good reason. Carrier Ethernet technologies and products are a permanent, ingrained, inseparable, and growing part of service provider networks, manifested in access, aggregation, core, metro, and long haul. Carrier Ethernet products are used in nearly every part of service provider networks: for customer access, mobile backhaul, mobile core, broadband, broadband backhaul, and optical transport."

MARKET HIGHLIGHTS

May 4, 2010 - Market research firm Infonetics Research released the first edition of its 2010 biannual Carrier Ethernet Equipment market share and forecast report.

"Service provider investment in carrier Ethernet is growing faster than overall telecom capital expenditures, so it is one of the areas that defied the economic downturn," notes Michael Howard, Infonetics Research's principal analyst for carrier and data center networks. "Globally, service providers invested $21.6 billion in carrier Ethernet products in 2009, and will increase spending over at least the next five years, for good reason. Carrier Ethernet technologies and products are a permanent, ingrained, inseparable, and growing part of service provider networks, manifested in access, aggregation, core, metro, and long haul. Carrier Ethernet products are used in nearly every part of service provider networks: for customer access, mobile backhaul, mobile core, broadband, broadband backhaul, and optical transport."

MARKET HIGHLIGHTS

Despite taking a hit, the market for Carrier Ethernet equipment is on a roll, fueled by communications companies' efforts to keep up with surging Internet traffic

By Laurence Cruz

The worst economic slump since the Great Depression was a mere speed bump for at least one technology segment.

CENX, is a new name in the Carrier Ethernet industry, however, in just a short period of time has made extraordinary progress.  Notably due to its senior leadership, CENX expects the number of connections to double to 10 million locations by the second quarter of 2010.  

Stan Hubbard, Senior Analyst at Heavy reading, and contributor to the Ethernet Academy, indicated "This is an extraordinary achievement by CENX in a very short time; its early success validates the exchange model and is being followed closely by carriers around the world,"  "CENX appears very focused on relieving carriers from the time-consuming service integration complexity, not just providing a simple Ethernet cross connection."

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